Cartoon of the Week: Pinky and the Brain

Neil StraussThe Loop

The moment I turned into a fan of the excellent Pinky and the Brain cartoons was when I saw the episode below.

It was probably the least funny and most uncharacteristic episode of the series.

But it was also a genius word-for-word parody of a famous outtake of Orson Welles in a studio recording a commercial, and giving the engineer grief.

Here’s the Pinky and the Brain version:

And here’s the Orson Welles original outtake:

 

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